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The Butchart Gardens, today is many fields of colorful gardens floating with aromatic floral scents. But not all is what it seems. The Butchart Gardens started as a limestone quarry in the early 1900's. Only time and the changing lifestyles of the area transformed the quarry into the floral Victoria Butchart Gardens we know today. In 2004, the Butchart Gardens celebrated its 100th year since the quarry days. For decades the Butchart Gardens has been one of the main attractions in BC. Media from around the world recognize the Butchart Gardens as one of the most famous sunken gardens, garden tea houses and rose gardens in the world.
The Victoria floral gardens story began long ago on a whim when Robert Pim Butchart, a cement entrepreneur, and his wife, Jennie Butchart , moved west to Victoria, BC on Vancouver Island from Ontario, Canada. A timely move because at that time the Canadian Pacific Railway was replacing it's wooden bridges with cement. This was right up Robert Butchart's alley. Butchart heard through the grapevine that, nearby Tod Inlet, might have a limestone deposit large enough for a cement factory. In 1904 the Vancouver Portland Cement Company opened its doors. Original vestiges from the 1900 limestone factory can be seen at the Ross Fountain at the Butchart Gardens today!
Jennie Butchart, took the west coast closest to heart. She had an inkling that the mild temperatures and lush environment were ideal for gardening. It is reported that the first seeds, sweet peas and a rose bush, at Butchart Gardens were planted outside the vary home of the Butcharts by Jennie Butchart. What started as a dug out quarry ended up slowly growing into a world renown floral garden named the Butchart Gardens. The life of the Butcharts came with many accolades like Robert Butchart being given the key and made a Freeman of the city of Victoria in 1928. While Jennie Butchart was named Citizen of the Year in 1931. Amazing people blazing a unique west coast start along a garden trail.
The Butchart Gardens was left in natures hands for some time after Jennie Butchart and had become a wilderness garden until in 1946, Ian Ross, the grandson of Jennie Butchart and his wife, Ann Lee Ross, worked the gardens back to life and resurrected Butchart Gardens. It was this time that Butchart Gardens started charging admission to help with the bills, a Seed and Gift Store was generating income and the grand opening of the Benvenuto Tea House helped everything come together. It was said that Jennie Butchart served over 18,000 cups of tea in 1916 at the Butchart's residence named, aptly, the "Benvenuto". Today, the world knows of the Butchart Gardens and you should too. Open year round.
Victoria's Butchart Gardens is well known for its red Rose Gardens, which are best smelt and seen from late June to September. At the Butchart Gardens the roses are marked with the country of origin for example... the English Rose and the Charles Austin. Overall there are 10 each of the 117 varieties of tea rose plants, 64 types of floribundas, and 400 grandiflora roses planted on the 55 acres of Butchart Gardens. The rhododendrons are a dominating sight in the early spring. The assortment of perennials is the seasonal star of the Butchart Gardens throughout most of the year. The Chinese Gardens and
the Italian Gardens is a natural treasure in the fall seasons to explore.
Butchart Gardens is always entertaining families with such events as the fireworks and stage shows in the summer months of July and August lighting up Victoria's skies and bringing laughter and smiles to all who experience the stellar garden events. The winter season, especially near holiday season, the Butchart Gardens are lit up in Xmas lights with carollers and a brass bands bringing joy to the world.
Butchart Gardens, 800 Benvenuto Ave, Brentwood Bay (Telephone)1-250-652-5256
http://www.victoriabc.ca/victoria/butchartgardens.htm
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All I can say is "Wow". Absolutely gorgeous.
Now, here is a place I've read about and seen pictures of before, yet there's always something new to read and see! Yes, the gardens are absolutely breathtaking and I would visit them in a heartbeat! What makes me extra happy, though, is the inclusion of the Butchart family and the background of the Gardens because it brings a whole new dimension to the beauty and importance of the Butchart Gardens.
donnamg/ Thank you, I too found that knowing more about how they were started etc. added interest.
See you there, I'll wait in the Tea Garden. ta ta....